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I saw this sentence reading some manga:

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    自分たちで処分するようにだそうだ
    
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I think in this context it means "I heard you guys are taking care of it
yourselves".

However I am surprised by the way だ follows after ように. Is this just a
colloquial equivalent to:

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    自分たちで処分するようにしそうだ
    
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?


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Usage of ようにだそうだ


I guess quotation marks are missing:

> 「自分たちで処分するように」だそうだ  
>  I hear “Take care of it yourselves.”


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> 自分たちで処分するようにだそうだ。

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> 『自分たちで処分するように！』だそうだ。

「～～ように」 is a little curt-sounding imperative-sentence-ender. (Teachers often
use it with students in schools.)

「～～だそうだ」＝「～～ということだ」＝「～～という[話]{はなし}だ」 These phrases are used to **_quote
hearsay statements_**.

So, Person A said 『自分たちで処分するように！』 to Person B and the speaker has heard it
from Person B (or yet another person who heard it from Person B).

= **_"I hear (or 'It seems') that (Person A) has said that we should handle it
by ourselves."_**

Your sentence 「自分たちで処分するようにしそうだ。」 does not make any sense, I am afraid to say.


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